MAP03: Tartaros (Curse of the Lost Gods)

MAP03: Tartaros is the third map of Curse of the Lost Gods. It was designed by Kristian Käll (Kristus) and uses the music track "".

Secrets

 * 1) After solving the puzzle involving the ice and magic platforms over the abyss, as you make your way to the western section of the level, turn right and go up the platform and up the first two sets of stairs that you see. Before going up the third one, below you to your right you can spot a wall, right of the blue mana cube, and if you drop down here a switch right next to it can be used to open it, revealing a secret path to MAP31. (sector 3696)
 * 2) Proceed to the west and you will see a series of platforms to jump on to reach the other side. Once you reach the middle platform, turn right and you will see a shrine with several wendigos. There are two secrets there that you may obtain. In order to unlock them however, you need to find two hidden switches. The first is located in the large room to the northwest where, on the curved staircase, if you jump on the platform to the left that has the statues and the porkalator, a switch may be found in the statue in front of the teleporter. This will activate a series of magic bridges on the aforementioned shrine leading to an Amulet of Warding, Falcon Shield, Platinum Helm and Mesh Armor. (sector 686)
 * 3) To reach a similar secret located on the opposite side of the same shrine, you need to find another switch. This switch is located to the south, where you fight Traductus and in the middle there's a group of wendigos and another porkalator, here you may see another switch to the south, activating more magic bridges. This leads to a teleporter taking you to an outer shrine, containing six Crystal Vials, two Quartz Flasks and, once you're imbued with the fire of Hades, you can also obtain the Heart of D'Sparil here. (sector 2195)
 * 4) Back to the middle platform from which you reached the shrine that leads to the two secrets, now turn to the opposite direction and you will see another walkway. This may easily be jumped to after solving the puzzle of the pillars of Tartaros, and once you're there, look for another platform below you on the left where you may find three quartz flasks and a teleporter back to the walkway that has a Krater of Might. (sector 396)
 * 5) Once you gain access to the eastern section, down the first flight of stairs you see, to the left of it you can see a walkway below to your left. With a careful jump you can reach it to obtain a porkalator and a Chaos Device, as well as one of the clock gears in multiplayer. (sector 813)
 * 6) From the same stairs you can jump to a platform further down, from where you can see Yorick's statue, and if you had obtained the skull using one of the gears earlier after solving the puzzle of the pillars of Tartaros, it will cause a series of magic platforms to spawn behind the gear pickup in this eastern section. Use these magic platforms to reach a ruined building in a cave containing several items and monsters, as well as another way into MAP31 which leads to the shrine of Hades, where the puzzle of the heart of D'Sparil may be completed. (sector 955)

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on March 6, 2022.

Player spawns
This level contains ten spawn points:
 * 1) facing east. (thing 738)
 * 2) facing east. (thing 739)
 * 3) facing east. (thing 740)
 * 4) facing east. (thing 741)
 * 5) facing east. (thing 742)
 * 6) facing east. (thing 743)
 * 7) facing east. (thing 744)
 * 8) facing east. (thing 745)
 * 9) facing east. (thing 746)
 * 10) facing east. (thing 747)

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level: